The Circle 7 logo was first designed by G. Dean Smith, and first used in 1962 by ABC for its then five owned and operated stations (O&Os): WABC-TV in New York City, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, WBKB (now WLS-TV) in Chicago, KGO-TV in San Francisco and WXYZ-TV in Detroit. When ABC applied for TV licenses in the late 1940s, it was thought that the low-band (channels 2 through 6) TV channels would be discontinued, thus making these five stations ...

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Circle 7 logo, Circle 7 logo - History and information, Circle 7 logo - Usage by stations not on channel 7, Circle 7 logo - International usage, Circle 7 logo - Trivia, Circle 7 logo - Examples of variations of the logo, Circle 7 logo - ABC, Circle 7 logo - Other U.S. networks, Circle 7 logo - International

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WLS-TV, "ABC7 Chicago" is the owned-and-operated ABC station in Chicago. It transmits from the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago. WLS-TV - History. The station first went on the air on September 17, 1948 as WENR-TV. It was named after WENR-AM, ABC's Chicago radio affiliate. In 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the former theater division of Paramount Pictures. UPT owned CBS affiliate WBKB-TV, but the new ABC could not keep both. As a result, WBKB was sold to CBS and renamed ...

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• WLS-TV - History
• WLS-TV - News Operations
• WLS-TV - News Personalities
• WLS-TV - Current Anchors
• WLS-TV - Other Current Staff
• WLS-TV - Past Personalities
• WLS-TV - Other locally produced programs

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company. Corporate headquarters are in New York, while programming offices are in Burbank, California, adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) and the Walt Disney Company corporate headquarters. The formal name of the company that operates the network is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright ...

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• American Broadcasting Company - History
• American Broadcasting Company - Creating ABC
• American Broadcasting Company - Enter Leonard Goldenson
• American Broadcasting Company - The 1960s
• American Broadcasting Company - Success at Last
• American Broadcasting Company - Acquisition by Disney
• American Broadcasting Company - ABC identity
• American Broadcasting Company - ABC1
• American Broadcasting Company - Notes on Sources

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The station operates a Bell JetRanger 206B entitled "Chopper 7." Its crew consists of Captain Dennis Neubacher and Craig Smith. WXYZ-TV - Weekdays. Action News This Morning - 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM Anchors: Erik Smith, Carolyn Clifford Weather: Dave Rexroth Traffic: Erin Nicole/Dennis Neubacher Action News Midday - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Anchors: Carolyn Clifford, Robbie Timmons Weather: Dave Rexroth ...

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WXYZ-TV, WXYZ-TV - History, WXYZ-TV - Newscasts and personalities, WXYZ-TV - Weekdays, WXYZ-TV - Saturday, WXYZ-TV - Sunday, WXYZ-TV - Personalities

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Channel 7 first went on the air on June 21, 1948, as WNAC-TV, the second television station in Boston. The station took its calls from WNAC-AM, the flagship station of the Yankee Network, a New England regional radio network. It was owned by General Teleradio, a subsidiary of General Tire, who purchased the Yankee Network in 1943. The company became RKO General in 1958 after the purchase of RKO Radio Pictures. Channel 7 first broadcasted from a studio on Brookline Avenue before moving to its current facilities n ...

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WHDH-TV, WHDH-TV - History, WHDH-TV - Newscasts, WHDH-TV - Newscast Schedule

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On October 3, 1947, channel 7 began broadcasting as WTVW, owned by the Washington Star along with WMAL radio. It was the first high-band VHF station (channels 7-13) in the United States. A few months later, the station renamed itself WMAL-TV. In 1976, Joseph L. Allbritton purchased the Washington Star, along with WMAL-AM-FM-TV. He sold the Star to Time, Inc. in 1978, and kept the WMAL stations. He later sold the radio stations to ABC and renamed the televisio ...

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WJLA-TV, WJLA-TV - History, WJLA-TV - Personalties, WJLA-TV - Anchors, WJLA-TV - Meteorologists, WJLA-TV - ABC 7 News Programs

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WSVN signed on in 1956 as WCKT, an NBC station owned by the Cox and Knight publishing families, the publishers of The Miami News and The Miami Herald, respectively. In 1962, the Cox-Knight partnership, which operated under the name "Biscayne Television Corporation", lost its license (due to circomstances that are unknown for now) and was forced to sell WCKT by the FCC. Shortly afterward, a new company, "Sunbeam Television Corporation", acquired the station and assumed ownership on December 19, 1962, with the station licensed as a new station, using the same WCKT calls. In 1983, Edmund N. ("Ed") Ansin acquired Sunbeam and, shortly after ...

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WSVN, WSVN - History, WSVN - Newscasts

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Channel 7 was to be the last VHF TV channel allocation in the Puget Sound area, and its license was hotly contested. In the end, it went to Saul Haas, owner of KIRO-AM, and the station signed on as KIRO-TV in 1958. It became a CBS affiliate, and competed heavily against KTNT, another CBS affiliate licensed to Tacoma. KIRO eventually won out, becoming the sole CBS affiliate for the Puget Sound area in the early 1960s. However, throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, KIRO still faced competition in some Western Washington households ...

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KIRO-TV, KIRO-TV - History, KIRO-TV - J. P. Patches, KIRO-TV - Newscasts, KIRO-TV - Weekdays, KIRO-TV - Weekends, KIRO-TV - KIRO Alumni

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WABC-TV is best known for popularizing the Eyewitness News format, in which reporters present their stories directly to the viewers. News director Al Primo brought the format to WABC-TV from KYW-TV in Philadelphia, but added a twist--chatter among the anchors, known as "happy talk." For a theme, Primo used the "Tar Sequence" cue from the musical score from the 1967 hit movie Cool Hand Luke. Written by Lalo Schifrin, it included a telegraphic-like melody appropriate for a newscast. It was quickly adopted by ABC's other large market owned-and-operated stations, WLS-TV in Chicago, KABC-TV ...

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WABC-TV, WABC-TV - History, WABC-TV - News operations, WABC-TV - Logos, WABC-TV - Notable anchors and reporters, WABC-TV - Newscast titles, WABC-TV - Live with Regis and Kelly, WABC-TV - Trivia

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WLS, like the other ABC owned-and-operated stations, adopted the Eyewitness News format in the late 1960s after it became a hit at flagship WABC-TV in New York. Fahey Flynn, a local broadcaster known for his bow ties, and Joel Daly served as the anchormen of the newscasts from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. For much of the 1970s and 1980s, it waged a spirited battle for second place in the Chicago news ratings with WMAQ-TV. In 1983, two big changes came to WLS. First, it commissioned Frank Gari to write an updated version of th ...

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WLS-TV, WLS-TV - History, WLS-TV - News Operations, WLS-TV - News Personalities, WLS-TV - Current Anchors, WLS-TV - Other Current Staff, WLS-TV - Past Personalities, WLS-TV - Other locally produced programs

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The station signed on the air for the first time on May 5, 1949, as Northern California's second-oldest TV station, behind CBS's KPIX Channel 5. In fact, KPIX had a hand in getting KGO-TV on the air, as Channel 5 produced informational programming on how to receive and view Channel 7. KGO is ABC's oldest owned & operated station on the West Coast, as sister station KECA-TV (now KABC), also operating on Channel 7, did not sign on the air until September 1949. KGO-TV - Logos. The P ...

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KGO-TV, KGO-TV - History, KGO-TV - Logos, KGO-TV - Programming

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American Broadcasting Company - Creating ABC. From the organization of the first true radio networks in the late 1920s, broadcasting in the United States was dominated by two companies, CBS and RCA's NBC. Prior to NBC's 1926 formation, RCA had acquired AT&T's New York station WEAF (later WNBC, now WFAN). With WEAF came a loosely-organized system feeding programming to other stations in the northeastern U.S. RCA also took control of a second such group, fed by Westinghouse's Newark station WJZ (now WABC (AM), New York.) These were the foundations of RCA's two distinct pro ...

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American Broadcasting Company, American Broadcasting Company - History, American Broadcasting Company - Creating ABC, American Broadcasting Company - Enter Leonard Goldenson, American Broadcasting Company - The 1960s, American Broadcasting Company - Success at Last, American Broadcasting Company - Acquisition by Disney, American Broadcasting Company - ABC identity, American Broadcasting Company - ABC1, American Broadcasting Company - Notes on Sources

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The station first went on the air on September 17, 1948 as WENR-TV. It was named after WENR-AM, ABC's Chicago radio affiliate. In 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the former theater division of Paramount Pictures. UPT owned CBS affiliate WBKB-TV, but the new ABC could not keep both. As a result, WBKB was sold to CBS and renamed WBBM-TV, while WENR was renamed WBKB-TV. The old WBKB's talent stayed at WBBM, while the old WBKB's management moved to channel 7. The station became WLS-TV in 1968, after WLS-A ...

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WLS-TV, WLS-TV - History, WLS-TV - News Operations, WLS-TV - News Personalities, WLS-TV - Current Anchors, WLS-TV - Other Current Staff, WLS-TV - Past Personalities, WLS-TV - Other locally produced programs

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Weekdays Today in Florida 5-9AM 7 News at Noon Noon-1PM 7 News at 5 5-5:30PM 7 News at 5:30 5:30-6PM 7 News at 6 6-6:30PM 7 News at 6:30 6:30-7PM 7 News at 10 also called 7 News Nightteam 10-11PM 7 News at 11 11-11:30PM Weekends Today in Florida Saturday Edition 8-10AM (Saturday only) 7 News at 5 5-5:30PM 7 News at 6 6-6:30PM ...

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WSVN, WSVN - History, WSVN - Newscasts

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WXYZ-TV's first broadcast was on October 9, 1948, from a studio across the street from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The station would later move to a larger studio, known as Broadcast House, along 10 Mile Road in Southfield in 1959. One of the first owned and operated stations (O&Os) of ABC, WXYZ-TV was originally working in partnership with its counterpart at WXYZ radio. Several shows that aired on WXYZ radio found t ...

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WXYZ-TV, WXYZ-TV - History, WXYZ-TV - Newscasts and personalities, WXYZ-TV - Weekdays, WXYZ-TV - Saturday, WXYZ-TV - Sunday, WXYZ-TV - Personalities

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Beginning in 1969, KIRO initiated major upgrades of its news programming, implementing the now-commonplace "Eyewitness News" format with chief correspondent Cliff Kirk, sportscaster Ron Forsell, and assistant anchor Sandy Hill, who later left KIRO to become the first co-host of Good Morning America. Throughout the decades, KIRO placed a high emphasis on news programming and investigative stories. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Eyewitness News team of anchors John Marler and Gary Justice, meteorologist Harry Wappler and porcine sportscaster Wayne Cody challenged ...

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KIRO-TV, KIRO-TV - History, KIRO-TV - J. P. Patches, KIRO-TV - Newscasts, KIRO-TV - Weekdays, KIRO-TV - Weekends, KIRO-TV - KIRO Alumni

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WJLA-TV - Anchors. Leon Harris Kathleen Matthews Gordon Peterson Maureen Bunyan Doug McKelway Alison Starling Elliot Francis WJLA-TV - Meteorologists. Doug Hill, Chief Meteorologist M-F Joe Witte, Weekend Meteorologist Brian Van de Graff, GMW Meteorologist M-FSee also:

WJLA-TV, WJLA-TV - History, WJLA-TV - Personalties, WJLA-TV - Anchors, WJLA-TV - Meteorologists, WJLA-TV - ABC 7 News Programs

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The station signed on in 1948 as WJZ-TV, named after radio station WJZ-AM (now WABC-AM) until they all changed to WABC in 1953. WJZ-TV is currently used as the call letters for the CBS owned and operated television station in Baltimore, Maryland. On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers. In the immediate aftermath, WABC-TV fed its signal to s ...

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WABC-TV, WABC-TV - History, WABC-TV - News operations, WABC-TV - Logos, WABC-TV - Notable anchors and reporters, WABC-TV - Newscast titles, WABC-TV - Live with Regis and Kelly, WABC-TV - Trivia

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As WNAC-TV, the station had been among the first to use "Move Closer to Your World" in 1970. Two years later, the station's news director moved to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, where the theme became famous. The station had been fairly competitive with WCVB and WBZ, but the RKO fiasco caused a sharp drop in the ratings that lasted until Ed Ansin and his company, Sunbeam, bought the station in June 1993. The station's previous owners attempted to boost the station's newscast by hiring many prominent journalists in the Boston market. However, thi ...

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WHDH-TV, WHDH-TV - History, WHDH-TV - Newscasts, WHDH-TV - Newscast Schedule

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WABC-TV also produces the successful syndicated morning talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, which originates in the same studio as Eyewitness News. This forces the local updates during Good Morning America to be produced from the WABC newsroom, and also limits the size of the Eyewitness News set; (while WNBC and WCBS-TV have comparatively large sets). The show began as a local morning show in 1983, aptly titled "The Morning Show" (using the circle-7 logo in the actual text), and was originally hosted by Re ...

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WABC-TV, WABC-TV - History, WABC-TV - News operations, WABC-TV - Logos, WABC-TV - Notable anchors and reporters, WABC-TV - Newscast titles, WABC-TV - Live with Regis and Kelly, WABC-TV - Trivia

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